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Facebook CIO Discusses Zuckerberg's "Will You Resign?" Email
CarlaRudder writes: When Mark Zuckerberg sends an email with the subject line, "Will you resign?" people remember it. In this case, the email went to the entire company after someone leaked damaging information, but CIO Tim Campos talks about his hesitation to open the email, thinking it was addressed to him personally. He goes on to share an insider's perspective on the power of culture at Facebook, the benefits of giving employees time and space to both fail and create, and why data is at the core of every decision made in the company.
There have been times in my life when I'd happily reply to that email.
Zuckerberg went on to write that the employee obviously didn’t share the same values of openness and transparency because they shared the confidential information in a way they were asked not to do.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
For precisely this reason. It's always spam.
He sure knows how to kiss ass.
You could say that IT & Finance were both wrong and that the data was right, or you could say that all of them were right and then you'd have an even better culture. The lessons to be learned from the article are trivial at best.
I KUT J00 M4NG!!!
I asked that once of the Director. It was a blatent request.
He refused. "Nope."
Left me stuck with an impossible job. Fortunately, things worked themselves out.
Nowadays, he comes around and pesters me. I want to fire him, but can't, because he's retired. Maybe I should resign.
has some weird psychological warfare going on there.
no
Sorry. I RTFA and found it utterly useless corporate BS. The only "takeaway" I had was a reminder of my time spent in an organization that blathered on about platitudes like this and was completely, morally bankrupt at its core. Seems like Facebook and Zuckerberg are too.
because the first thing that popped into mind was Chief Idiot Officer
What are your thoughts about GitHub and the recent code of conduct controversy?
Openness means freedom to speak your mind, to share things that would otherwise be not shared, and to know things you don't specifically need to know.. This includes sharing information that is otherwise confidential, at least to people outside the company. But to do that, you need to be assured that people won't spread information with which they've been entrusted to people outside the circle of trust. It's not just social, either. Sometimes sharing things outside a company has financial or legal consequences to the company itself. So if he has someone who is giving confidential business strategy away to potential rivals, then he won't be able to share things he otherwise would.
Zuckerberg isn't being unreasonable here.
So, what information was leaked? Seems like a fairly relevant point, odd that it wasn't mentioned.
1) The Power of Culture: "At Facebook, culture is everything and it's an incredible timesaver," Campos said. Culture allows Facebook to cut through bureaucracy, he said. Among the ways Facebook emphasizes its culture is through its now well-known posters that say things like: "Fail harder;" "Move fast and break things;" and, "What would you do if you weren't afraid?"
Facebook also reinforces its culture through storytelling, like the "will you resign" email example he shared with the audience. "It was an incredibly powerful message," Campos explained. "Everybody at the company read this email and had the exact same takeaway and perspective that I did, they all thought it was immediately addressed to them. And it was striking as a result of that. And they never forgot it. And we keep talking about it - we talk about how do we handle confidential information in the company. The 'will you resign' email is quite famous." There are a ton of stories like this that Facebook uses to reinforce key culture points that prevent the creation of unnecessary steering committees and advisory boards, Campos said.
Posters he's describing are pure propaganda, all basically shouting "WORK HARDER AND MORE!", while those mass "Your job is insecure" emails are nothing but mobbing.
If that's culture, it's nothing but culture of fear.
Ah well... someone has to keep getting stress-related heart attacks, strokes and cancers I guess.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
some of those secrets are necessary
The system, and indeed our entire culture, is rigged to protect the interests of the powerful.
I've never really seen the appeal of Facebook. So articles about Mark Zuckerberg being a great leader leave me puzzled. For that matter, I've never really seen the appeal of Apple computers or Microsoft Windows, Office, etc. So articles about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs also leave me puzzled.
But I use Linux and Google all the time. And I like Taco Bell and Pizza Hut. We do occasionally get articles about Linus Torvald's leadership style. But what about Larry Page or David C. Noval (CEO of YUM! Brands)?
There are lots of successful companies out there in the world. And many of them do much more important things (IMHO) than Facebook. And many of them have CEOs whose management style isn't so eccentric. So why are Zuckerberg and Jobs the ones who get held up as model CEOs?
It'd be funny, if everyone did.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Never ask a woman if she is breaking up with you.
The power to sap the morale out of your staff by making them feel like shit!
Anything you get out of an email like this is vastly outweighed by what you lose. This kind of bullshit is probably why the employee would have been happy to leak the information..."Those bastards don't give a flying fuck about me so I'll sell them out in a heartbeat. Fuck 'em!"
The takeaway from this story is that Facebook uses email for the important stuff, not Facebook messages.
Did they find the guy who leaked the information?
Religion is what happens when nature strikes and groupthink goes wrong.
They have no real competition so I doubt there is something important to learn from their strategies
nice
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If the CIO, a rather high ranking C-Suite officer, is afraid to open a mail from his CEO talking about resignation, something is amiss. If a C-Level pretty much expects to be laid off by email instead of a more personal way of communication something is VERY, VERY wrong in a company.
Don't get me wrong, being laid off by email is common for lower ranks in huge, "faceless" corporations. I never experienced it on this level, though. We're talking about a handful of people per company. It's not like there are a dozen CIOs littering the top floor. Even a company like Facebook will hardly employ hundreds of C-Levels. These people KNOW each other. Personally. They have meetings. They organize and coordinate strategies. Depending on the company they even know each other on a rather personal level, down to their family status and whether the kids have the flu.
If such a person expects to be fired by email, this does not speak kindly of the prevailing corporate culture.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
like this cross my desk, sure I'd quit.
Let FB plummit, it's nickle stock, completely overvalued.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In the workplace
Main article: Workplace bullying
British anti-bully researchers Andrea Adams and Tim Field have used the expression "workplace bullying" instead of what Leymann called "mobbing" in a workplace context. They identify mobbing as a particular type of bullying that is not as apparent as most, defining it as "an emotional assault. It begins when an individual becomes the target of disrespectful and harmful behavior. Through innuendo, rumors, and public discrediting, a hostile environment is created in which one individual gathers others to willingly, or unwillingly, participate in continuous malevolent actions to force a person out of the workplace."[3]
Adams and Field believe that mobbing is typically found in work environments that have poorly organised production or working methods and incapable or inattentive management and that mobbing victims are usually "exceptional individuals who demonstrated intelligence, competence, creativity, integrity, accomplishment and dedication".[3]
Shallcross, Ramsay and Barker consider workplace "mobbing" to be a generally unfamiliar term in some English speaking countries. Some researchers claim that mobbing is simply another name for bullying. Workplace mobbing can be considered as a "virus" or a "cancer" that spreads throughout the workplace via gossip, rumour and unfounded accusations. It is a deliberate attempt to force a person out of their workplace by humiliation, general harassment, emotional abuse and/or terror. Mobbing can be described as being "ganged up on." Mobbing is executed by a leader (who can be a manager, a co-worker, or a subordinate). The leader then rallies others into a systematic and frequent "mob-like" behaviour toward the victim.[4]
Psychological and health effects
Victims of workplace mobbing frequently suffer from: adjustment disorders, somatic symptoms (e.g., headaches or irritable bowel syndrome), psychological trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder and major depression.[5]
In mobbing targets with PTSD, Leymann notes that the "mental effects were fully comparable with PTSD from war or prison camp experiences. Some patients may develop alcoholism or other substance abuse disorders. Family relationships routinely suffer. Some targets may even develop brief psychotic episodes, generally with paranoid symptoms. Leymann estimated that 15% of suicides in Sweden could be directly attributed to workplace mobbing.[5]
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Does your gran know you're potty-mouthing with her slashdot account?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
And here's my answer:
YES!!!
I look forward to spending the rest of my life making the two of us happy, as far away from each other as possible!
Isn't that how decisions should be made? Why is that it seems to be such a big deal?
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
Only an asshole of a CEO would send out an email with that address line.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
If you have a group of people, and one of them does something wrong, you address the issue with the person who did something wrong. If you send an e-mail out to the entire group, then the person who did something wrong will think it is directed at someone else, and everyone else will think it is directed at them. This is one of the very first things you learn as a manager. You absolutely do not reprimand by group. You reprimand individually. You praise publicly. If you can't understand that, or disagree, then you need to be removed from your position of authority.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
I don't always live at work, but when I do I live in fear.
What was leaked? Does anyone have the full text of the e-mail?
Mark,
No. Will you?
Best,
F. Uckoff
Most people are conditioned to cower in front of their boss or superior officer. At least in anglo controlled nations.
More egalitarian countries like Switzerland are badmouthed on a regular basis in anglo controlled nations, because our corrupt elite hates the plebs to actually have a say in decisionmaking.
I can see the badmouthing here all the time. And I know Switzerland is a great nation because I visited them and I can understand them. All they say appears natural to me, while all the media in my country is full of insane bullshit and lies.
Also, I wait for the day the axis of evil will invade Switzerland to smoke out this "dangerous" island of freedom.
The author of the linked article pines about the culture at Facebook. Pure in simple the "Will you resign" was and attempt to silence dissent and rally the good little storm troopers at Facebook to get co-workers "in line.
Corporates are giant ponzi/pyramid scams in globalization;
Casteism
I'd like to read it and decide for myself what it sounds like.